Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced the need to urgently resolve the issue of raising the retirement age in the country.
“This will allow for a better balance of the pension system without raising insurance premiums,” the Finance Minister explained. Siluanov added that from 2018 insurance premiums are planning to raise from 22 to 26 percent.
The editors of uznayvse.ru want to remind that on September 17, the media reported that the Ministry of Finance proposes the government to start raising the retirement age from 2016, which will allow for three years to save from 620 billion rubles to 1.3 trillion rubles.

Anton Siluanov calls urgently to raise the retirement age

It should be added that the idea of ​​raising the retirement age was also supported by the Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukayev. The minister, however, stressed that the initiative should be worked out better. Nevertheless, everything suggests that the retirement age in Russia will be raised.